Just wondered if anyone else uses this browser I downloaded it the other week and I am impressed with it better than normal mozilla and way better than internet explorer i recommend giving it a bash as the built in pop up blocker is great

I am using it at the moment as you say it is far better than IE

I have been using Mozilla in preference to IE for over a year now, thought I'd try Firefox - and I like it too, so now I've switched at work, and I'm in the process of converting at home.

Have you installed any extras, I've got mouse gestures at work, don't need them at home cos I've got a 5 button wheely mouse.

Vince

Using it right now, at work on Windo$e XP and at home on Linux. It renders pages MUCH faster than IE6 (which lends you to believe it isn't simply the connection you're using) and starts up a hell of a lot quicker (i.e. half the time).

The installation will find all you old bookmarks, so go for .

Big Rich

Anybody care to sum up the benefits before I take the plunge? I've tried other browsers in the past, but there are often disadvantages that outweigh the advantages. Many browsers are in fact just wrappers for IE, and the integration of IE with Windows Explorer means it may be impossible to get rid of entirely. If this is the case, a.n.other browser has to be really very much better to be worth the extra hassle and overhead...

I use firefox and i love it..

try THIS lil optimisation tool to make it much faster on broadband.

i love the middle click to open in new tab, background loading pages and a good download manager

Hmmm just downloaded it and it's certainly different. Things noticed so far:

It seems to ignore style sheets to some extent - text in one site will be tiny tiny, so you adjust the text size to suit, go somewhere else - text is huge now :thumbdwn:

It has a big problem with my proxy settings here at work - can't get it to use the proxy for external addresses but ignore it for intranet ones. Tried various settings in the "no proxy" list but to no avail - it keeps prompting me for username/password for "" at intranet (intranet is the name of our local home page).

(Edit: sussed this one now - uses a different format from IE with no http:// prefix and commas instead of semicolons between entries. Also has no "bypass proxy for local addresses" option so you need to enter all local sites separately :( )

The cursor in this box is annoyingly over the top of the current letter all the time.

Haven't worked out how to get a new tab yet apart from clicking ctrl-T, switching to it, and then opening a new URL - tabbing needs to be more seamless than that if it's going to be useful.

(Edit: also sussed - ctrl-Click)

I'm sure it's got its plus points once I work around these annoyances...

i use myIE2, based on the IE engine obviously.

very,very good.

It's growing on me .....

Latest teeny annoyance is the toolbars are locked so I can't reduce the depth of them by combining toolbars lengthwise - for instance I would probably move the links bar to the right of the menubar as both would fit on one line - result, an extra centimeter or so of screen space saved...

I use Avant browser, again based on IE. I've tried Firebird in the past, and it just annoyed me in the end. The only thing Avant ever does that is remotely annoying is it sometimes hangs the process at 100% CPU usage when u quit.

Mozilla and firebird are fairly close. Use Mozilla bundle for mail etc...it's far better and windo$e xp bug of only allowing 2 downloads at once pee's me off no end. Mozilla 6 was IMHO awefull versus IE6, but tables are well turned now...multitabs are great at 3am, real mind blowers when your sure you were reading a site somewhere.

Style sheets and the odd site are buggy; this is mainly down to sites and browsers not fully following the w3c standard. Thus some sites work some won't as the designer expected. As a guide this site break w3c quite alot, but nothing that should break in a browser..confusing ain't it.

Plugin support is a bit of a headache for the new to web users. But easily rectified, just not as easily as IE.

Huck, we need to talk mate..IE2...

I've been using Firefox for quite a few months now. It was called Firebird until the current version.

Benefits:

• Blocks annoying pop-up windows without having to install any add-ons.
  

• Tabbed browsing: you can have lots of web pages open at the same time without cluttering your screen. Go to a page with lots of articles that you want to read (eg Briskoda) and choose them all at the same time. Then work your way through the tabs.
  

• Fast - better than Mozilla, which does take up quite a bit of memory.
  

• FlashBlock - blocks those annoying Flash animations that float across your screen. This is one of the many add-ons available from this page. If you go to one of those annoying sites that rely on Flash you just click the animations to view them.
  

• Less vulnerable to security problems than IE and not susceptible to the home page hijackers.
  

• Google search from the toolbar without having to install any dodgy IE add-on toobars.
  

• Free (unlike Opera).
  

• Themes - you can change its appearance. My preference is for Pinball which is small and unobtrusive.
  

Don't be put off by the fact that it's only version 0.8. It's already good enough to use as your main browser.

A couple of suggestions for ncarring: you may find the toolbars take up less space if you try some alternative themes. You can add a button to the toolbar to open a new tab. Right click - Customize on the toolbar.